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What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?

Horace

With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
HORACE

Love Ready Sweet
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
HORACE

Envy Punishment Tyrant
A good resolve will make any port.
HORACE

Adversity Port Resolve
Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
HORACE

Difficulty Intervention Worthy
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
HORACE

Men Poetry Rate
I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.
HORACE

Last Poverty Wing
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
HORACE

Mind Spill Superfluous
One cannot know everything.
HORACE

Everything Know Knowledge
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
HORACE

Advice Funny Simple Life
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
HORACE

Fire Neighbor Wall
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
HORACE

Car Men Wheels
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
HORACE

Book Fate Live Today
Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
HORACE

Birth Fall Joy Note
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
HORACE

Inspirational Life Motivational
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
HORACE

Greedy Mind Praise
Never without a shilling in my purse.
HORACE

Emotion People Purse Shilling

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